"Right to Reply" part 1

The concept of "Right of Reply"....Senate Version

In responsible journalism we can talk and claim that a certain issue is being studied and clearly justified by some respected journalist in television, broadsheets, and in radio.

There is truly nothing wrong with that. Because we offer a place and time for a response on both parties. Each of the side must express and clarify if the certain issue is void or even unclear. That is the sole purpose of this concept. (Right of Reply).

But when this concept is being a subject of "dictation" or "dictating an act" it is unconstitutional per-se. Why? because in a free society especially here in the Philippines "DEMOCRACY" is intact. The highest law of the land strongly states and clearly manifested by the provision that "NO LAW SHOULD BE PASSED ABRIDGING THE FREEDOM OF THE PRESS".